[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 63 (Tuesday, April 28, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D457-D459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SWINE FLU
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine public

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health response to swine flu, after receiving testimony from Rear 
Admiral Anne Schuchat, Interim Deputy Director, Science and Public 
Health Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Anthony 
Fauci, Director, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious 
Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services; John R. Clifford, Deputy Administrator, National Animal 
Health and Policy Program, Department of Agriculture; and Paul Jarris, 
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Arlington, 
Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Raymond Edwin Mabus, Jr., of Mississippi, to be 
Secretary, who was introduced by Senators Cochran and Wicker, and 
Robert O. Work, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary, both of the 
Department of the Navy, Elizabeth Lee King, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, who was 
introduced by Senator Reed, Michael Nacht, of California, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Global Strategic Affairs, and Wallace C. 
Gregson, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific 
Security Affairs, who was introduced by Senator Webb, all of the 
Department of Defense, Donald Michael Remy, of Virginia, to be General 
Counsel, who was introduced by Senator Landrieu, and Jo-Ellen Darcy, of 
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, who was introduced 
by Senator Baucus, both of the Department of the Army, and Ines R. 
Triay, of New Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for 
Environmental Management, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Ronald C. Sims, of Washington, to 
be Deputy Secretary, Peter A. Kovar, of Maryland, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, Helen R. 
Kanovsky, of Maryland, to be General Counsel, and John D. Trasvina, of 
California, to be Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal 
Opportunity, all of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 
David S. Cohen, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 
for Terrorist Financing, and Fred P. Hochberg, of New York, to be 
President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
FORMALDEHYDE IN TEXTILES AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing 
to examine formaldehyde in textiles and consumer products, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Casey; Ruth A. Etzel, American Academy 
of Pediatrics, and Phillip Wakelyn, Wakelyn Associates, LLC, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and David Brookstein, Philadelphia University School 
of Engineering and Textiles, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FUTURE OF NATIONAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and 
Security concluded a hearing to examine the future of national surface 
transportation policy, after receiving testimony from Ray LaHood, 
Secretary of Transportation; Ned S. Holmes, Texas Transportation 
Commission, Houston; Steve Heminger, National Surface Transportation 
Policy and Revenue Study Commission, Oakland, California; and Anne P. 
Canby, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, and James Corless, 
Transportation for America, both of Washington, D.C.
CLEAN ENERGY DEPLOYMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine financing for deployment of clean energy and energy 
efficiency technologies and to enhance United States' competitiveness 
in this market through the creation of a Clean Energy Deployment 
Administration within the Department of Energy, after receiving 
testimony from Matthew Rogers, Senior Advisor for the Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act, Office of the Secretary, Department of Energy; Dan W. 
Reicher, Google, Mountain View, California; John Denniston, Kleiner 
Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo Park, California; and Jeanine Hull, 
Dykema Gossett, and Joseph S. Hezir, EOP Group, Inc., both of 
Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Michelle DePass, of New York, and 
Cynthia J. Giles, of Rhode Island, who was introduced by Senator 
Whitehouse, each to be an Assistant Administrator, and Mathy 
Stanislaus, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Administrator for Office of 
Solid Waste, all of the Environmental Protection Agency, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
WAR POWERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine war powers in the 21st Century, after receiving testimony from 
James A. Baker III, and Warren Christopher, both a former Secretary

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of State; and Lee H. Hamilton, Woodrow Wilson International Center, 
Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Harold Hongju Koh, of Connecticut, to be 
Legal Adviser of the Department of State, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senators Dodd and Lieberman, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
CYBER SECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine cyber security, focusing on developing a 
national strategy, after receiving testimony from Stewart A. Baker, 
Steptoe and Johnson LLP, and James A. Lewis, Center for Strategic and 
International Studies, both of Washington, D.C.; Alan Paller, SANS 
Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; and Tom Kellerman, Core Security 
Technologies, Boston, Massachusetts.
GOVERNMENT AND DIGITAL FUTURE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
advancing America into the 21st Century and a digital future, after 
receiving testimony from Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information 
Officer and Administrator, and Karen S. Evans, former Administrator, 
each for Electronic Government and Information Technology, Office of 
Management and Budget; David A. Powner, Director, Information 
Technology Management Issues, Government Accountability Office; and 
Phillip J. Bond, TechAmerica, Washington, D.C.
WORKPLACE SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine 
introducing meaningful incentives for safe workplaces and meaningful 
roles for victims and their families, after receiving testimony from 
Celeste Monforton, George Washington University School of Public Health 
and Health Services, Washington, D.C.; James S. Frederick, United 
Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied 
Industrial and Service Workers International Union, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania; Tammy Miser, United Support and Memorial for Workplace 
Fatalities, Lexington, Kentucky; and Warren K. Brown, American Society 
of Safety Engineers, Des Plaines, Illinois.
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine individual state experiences with health 
care reform coverage initiatives in the context of national reform, 
after receiving testimony from Utah House of Representatives Speaker 
David Clark, and Brent C. James, Intermountain Healthcare Institute for 
Health Care Delivery Research, both of Salt Lake City, Utah; Jon 
Kingsdale, Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, and 
Eileen McAnneny, Associated Industries of Massachusetts, both of 
Boston, Massachusetts; Susan Besio, Vermont Director of Health Care 
Reform, and Harry Chen, both of Burlington, Vermont; and Ruth Liu, 
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Oakland, 
California.
VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Victims of Crime Act, focusing on 25 years of protecting and 
supporting victims, after receiving testimony from Judith A. Rex, 
Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services, Waterbury; Mary Lou Leary, 
National Center for Victims of Crime, Washington, D.C.; Keith Perkins, 
The Never Again Foundation, Chandler, Arizona; Steve Derene, National 
Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators, Madison, Wisconsin; and 
Susan S. Russell, Warren, Vermont.
INTELLIGENCE
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.